Thursday, October 27, 2016

From Deadline: Topher Grace has just joined Hacksaw Ridge‘s Andrew Garfield and50 Shades of Grey star Dakota Johnson in David Robert Mitchell’s Under The Silver Lake, which is a a modern noir crime thriller set in Los Angeles. The That 70s Showactor will play play a friend to Garfield’s character who helps him with an investigation into a missing woman.

The story centers on a man who becomes obsessed with the strange circumstances of a billionaire mogul’s murder and the undeniable link to the LA “dog murderers” and cult indie music scene.

Grace just wrapped War Machine opposite Brad Pitt for director David Michod and was last seen in the critically acclaimed Truth opposite acting greats Cate Blanchett and Robert Redford.

Michael De Luca is producing Under the Silver Lake with Chris Bender. Jake Weiner and Adele Romanski are also producing.

Grace, whose credits also include the Lionsgate film American Ultra opposite Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart, is repped by ICM Partners, Lighthouse Management and Ziffren Brittenham.

A24 has acquired domestic rights to the the pic during this year’s Cannes International Film Festival. The film, which Mitchell both wrote and is directing, is the helmer’s follow-up to his breakout indie horror hit It Follows.

For the 280-page issue, slated to drop Nov. 9 at Dover Street Market and Colette, the Italian designer tapped an eclectic range of contributors and gave them carte blanch to interpret the issue’s theme – “blind for love” – words from an 18th-century manuscript by Fanny de Beauharnais that have also appeared on Gucci clothes and accessories.

The magazine features nude photos of Chloë Sevigny taken by her boyfriend; a Polaroid of Dakota Johnson as a heartbroken 16-year-old; Madonna flanked by Samburu warriors; Hari Nef body-painted as a cherub, complete with wings and scraped elbows; and a never-before-seen portrait of filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini by 91-year-old photographer Paolo Di Paolo.

From DigitalSpy: Next year she'll [Tilda Swinton] be appearing in Suspiria, a horror remake of Dario Argento's 1977 distinctive Giallo classic about a young ballet dancer who uncovers sinister secrets in a prestigious academy.

Only it's not going to be a remake as such, Tilda Swinton told Digital Spy at the Doctor Strange launch event. It'll be more like a cover version.

"It's a cover. We're not particularly keen on remakes. We made a film which people mistakenly called a remake of La Piscine, called A Bigger Splash. Now the film is out people can see it's not a remake, it's a completely different film," she explained.

Swinton is reuniting with director Luca Guadagnino for Suspiria. She's worked with Luca several times including I Am Love and A Bigger Splash.

This movie has been in development for some years, with David Gordon Green as director and Guadagnino producing. Various actress including Natalie Portman and Isabelle Furhman were tipped for the lead.

The project stumbled though and was resurrected in 2015 with Guadagnino as director.

In Suspiria, Swinton will play Mme Blanc, one of the mysterious heads of the academy, in a story which flirts with rituals, witchcraft and murder. Fifty Shades star Dakota Johnson will appear opposite her as Suzy Bannion, the heroine of the original film, with Mia Goth as her friend Sara and Chloe Grace Moretz in an as-yet unnamed role.

But 40 years after the original, don't expect a redo.

"It's a film that's inspired by Suspiria that loves Dario Argento's film. That's all I can promise you," says Swinton.